Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies.

• Superior document: Knowledge Communities Series ; v.12
• Author: Norris, Robin.
• TeilnehmendeR: Stephenson, Rebecca.; Trilling, Renee.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Knowledge Communities Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (410 pages)

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Metacritical Considerations
• 1. The Lost Victorian Women of Old English Studies
• M. J. Toswell
• 2. Embroidered Narratives
• Christina Lee
• 3. Remembering the Lady of Mercia
• Scott Thompson Smith
• Affect Theory
• 4. Be a Man, Beowulf
• Sentimental Masculinity and the Gentleness of Kings
• E. J. Christie
• 5. Shame, Disgust and Ælfric's Masculine Performance
• Alice Jorgensen
• Treatments of Virginity
• 6. The Ornament of Virginity
• Aldhelm's De uirginitate and the Virtuous Women of the Early English Church
• Emily V. Thornbury
• 7. Chaste Bodies and Untimely Virgins
• Sexuality, Temporality, and Bede's Æthelthryth
• Lisa M. C. Weston
• Medical Discourse
• 8. Monaðgecynd and flewsan
• Wanted and Unwanted Monthly Courses in Old English Medical Texts
• Dana M. Oswald
• 9. Dangerous Voices, Erased Bodies
• Reassessing the Old English Wifgemædla and Witches in Leechbook III
• Erin E. Sweany
• 10. Women and "Women's Medicine" in Early Medieval England, from Text to Practice
• Christine Voth
• Women's Literacy
• 11. The Literate Memory of Hugeburc of Heidenheim
• Aidan Conti
• 12. A Road Nearly Taken
• An Eighth-Century Manuscript in a Woman's Hand and Franco-Saxon Nuns in Early Medieval English Intellectual History
• Matthew T. Hussey
• 13. "Historical Accuracy," Anonymity, and Women's Authorship
• The Case of the Case for Beowulf
• Stephen M. Yeager
• Index
• List of Illustrations
• Fig. 3.1 Cassell's Illustrated History of England from the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses
• Fig. 3.2 The Æthelflæd statue at Tamworth Castle, designed by H. C. Mitchell and sculpted by E. G. Bramwell. The statue was raised in 1913
• Fig. 3.3 The Æthelflæd statue sculpted by Luke Perry and raised in 2018.
• Fig. 11.1 Hugeburc's cipher. München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 1086, fol. 71v, lines 4-78
• Fig. 12.1 Detail from Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek M.p.th.f.79, fol. 1v.
• Fig. 12.2 Detail from Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Hatton 48, fol. 1r.
• Fig. 12.3 Detail from Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque Municipale 74 (82), fol. 53r.
• Fig. 12.4 Detail from Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale lat. 17177, fol. 8r.
• Fig. 12.5 Detail from Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque Municipale 74 (82), fol. 1r.